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materials; and are only to be distinguished by 
having a few glass windows, and one or two 
wooden chimnies. These are all framed in Nor¬ 
way, then taken to pieces for stowage in the ship, 
and conveyed here. The warehouses are also 
shops, where the merchants retail cloth, earthen¬ 
ware, tin and iron utensils, sugar, coffee, tobacco, 
snuff, rye-flour, shoes, rum, in short, every neces¬ 
sary of life; and take, in exchange, for exporta¬ 
tion, wool, tallow, fish, fish oil, seal oil, fox- 
skins, swan-skins, eider down, worsted stockings, 
mittens, and, sometimes, dried mutton. At the 
western corner of this row of shops are the stocks, 
or, what might rather be called, a pillory; for the 
culprit stands upon a block, and has his arms 
fixed in two holes, formed by iron clasps, on the 
sides of an upright pole, at about four feet from 
the bottom. From near this instrument of punish¬ 
ment, two rows of houses run parallel for some 
hundred yards, in a south direction, and form a 
tolerably wide street; but so encumbered with 
pieces of rock, that, if there were such a thing as 
a cart in the country, I fear it could not proceed 
half a dozen yards up this, the high street of the 
capital. At the commencement of the right-hand 
side, are two or three merchants’ houses, and 
storerooms; and, near them, is the residence of 
the learned Bishop of Iceland, Videlinus. His 
house differs in no respect from that of the 
